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Leonid Livak

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Taras Koznarsky

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Joseph Schallert

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Veronika Ambros

Christopher Barnes

Kate Holland

Christina E. Kramer - sabbatical

Julia Mikhailova

Dragana Obradovic

Pia Paivio

Joseph Schallert

Tamara Trojanowska

 

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Zahar Davydov

Artur Placzkiewicz

 

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C. Harold Bedford

George Bisztray

Ralph Bogert

Lubomir Dolezel

David Huntley

Kenneth Lantz

Ralph Lindheim

Richard H. Marshall

N. Pavliuc

Constantin V. Ponomareff

R.D. Boris Thomson

Norman N. Shneidman

Borje Vahamaki

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Ksenya Kiebuzinski

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Ann Komaromi

Thomas Lahusen

Anna Shternshis

Alison K. Smith

T. Allan Smith

In Memoriam

Hanka Markowicz

 

Tamara Trojanowska

Associate Professor, Polish

121 St. Joseph Street, Room 423

tel: 416-926-1300 ext. 3255
email: t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca

Research Interests:

Polish literature of the 20th century; problems of modernity and postmodernity; discourse of identity; history and theory of drama and theatre; performance studies.

Education:

1994 - Ph.D., University of Toronto.
1986-87 - Ph.D. research, Oxford University, England.
1983 - M.A., Jagiellonian University, Department of Polish Philology, Krakow, Poland.

Recent Scholarship:

1. Refereed publications:

Polonistyka po amerykansku. Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005) . [Anthology of North American Scholarship on Polish Literature, 1990-2005]. Edited by Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warszawa: Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (the Institute of Literary Studies at the Polish Academy of Arts and Science), 2005.

“Jednostkowosc i innosc: Rozewicz odgrywa Kafke.” In Polonistyka po amerykansku. Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005). Edited by Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warszawa: Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2005.

“New Discourses in Drama”, Contemporary Theater Review, Vol 15 (1), 2005, 109-123.

“Spektakl rozlicitosti i sutnje: Ivona, kneginjica od Burgunda Witolda Gombrowicza” [Performing Otherness and Silence: Gombrowicz’s Ivona, Princess of Burgundia]. Trans. Dalibor Blazina. Knjizevna smotra, 36, (2004): 61-5.

“Many Happy Returns: Janusz Glowacki in America” in Life in Translation. Ed. Halina Stephan. Rodopi, 2003.

“Private Rooms in Public Places.” In Framing the Polish Home. Ed. Bozena Shallcross. Ohio University Pres, 2002.

“Individuality and Otherness: Reading Rozewicz Performing Kafka,” in Examining “the Other” in Polish Culture: Studies in Language, Literature, and Cultural Mythology. Ed. Elwira Grossman. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

“Z zyczeniami szczesliwych powrotow: emigracyjne doswiadczenie Janusza Glowackiego” in Zycie w przekladzie. Ed. Halina Stephan. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001.

2. Other publications:

“Tadeusz Slobodzianek,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography. Twenty-First Century Central and East European Writers Ed. Steven Serafin. Bruccoli Clark Lyman, Inc. (to be published in 2006).

“Wislawa Szymborska,” in Encyclopedia of Women in World History (to be published by Oxford UP).

“Tadeusz Rozewicz,” in Reference Guide to World Literature, St. James Press, 2002.

“Igraszki trafu i milosci: polonistyka w Toronto” (The Game of Love and Chance: Polish Language and Literature in Toronto), Postscriptum (Katowice, Poland 2001)

University of Toronto

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
121 St. Joseph Street, Alumni Hall (AH), Rm. 429 ~ Toronto, Ontario ~ M5S 1J4
tel: 416-926-2075 ~ fax: 416-926-2076 ~ email: slavic@chass.utoronto.ca